The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-09-30

founded upon reports % early navigator
Who failed 20 penetrate the INTERIOR the
archlpslago contains valuable farming
hnds. forests and mineral deposits.
n. 3. LOWERING was nominated BY the
Massachusetts, Democrats on tho soth Tor
Governor.
AnoruER trial Of Russian Anarchists q
about % begin % 81. Petersburg.
4 REUNION Of soldiers Of the civil war
blue and gray-began q Evansville ind''
on the 3Oth.
RErUnrIcAx members Of the French
Chamber of Deputies are again agitatng
for the expulsion Of Orleanise ana Bona
partist princes from Franco
The Pull Mall Gaxetfe has set ailcnt an.
other social scandal In upper circles o.
London society.
TIE Prssident has promised 70 take .
drive through 81. Joseph, No, - he
masses from Omaha TO Kansas City.
Exsrox 8. MOSTLY, Of the United States
| Surveyors steamer Macarthur, died on the
| 18th, e Portland, Ore, Of congestive chilli
i the result Of being thrown into the water
| by the capsixing Of boat
OUrIAwRY and brigandage p reported
70 b rampant In the mountain districts o.
Burmah.
CHARLEs TALBOT, who stole Fanny
Dsvenport's diamonds 1t Memphis, Tenn,
has been sentenced to four years In the
penitentiary for Il.
THE census OF Paris for 1883, which has
| just beon issued, shows IN excess Of births
over deaths Of 81, 800 againss 5000 In lSo.
| The divorces granted In 1855 numbered
3,9l5. against All in 1855
BIG washouts have again occurred at In
do. Aria, on tho line Of the Southern
Pacific railway and between Tacna and
Yuma. which delayed trains two days.
Heavy rains have fallen from Yuma
along the line Of the railroad east
THE Trafalgar, the largest iron-clad
ever constructed, Was successfully
launched, on the 10th, 1t Portsmouth, En-.
gland. The Trafalgar sof 1870 tons and
1900 horse power. She's TO carry twelve
funs-four Of sixty seven tons and eight Of
forty hundred hundred-weight Her side
arnor Il twenty inches thick.
COMMISSIONER MILLER Of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, Treasury Department,
has prepared statement showing that the
tax paid on spirits for the first two months
OF the present fiscal year was $lo,zsi.Sl1'
an increase Of 81, 066 81 over corresponding
months Of the last fiscal year.
THE Porte has made : fresh proposal q
the Powers for settlement Of the buigar'
ian question.
! Bureau OF Of Elections, has been served
With 4 notice signed BY Police Commits.
siouers voorhis and Porter, instructinG
him not 70 qualify inspectors Of election
for the Labor party.
~ CARLOAD Of dynamite, enough Il
blow M Havana, has been discovered
hidden in the woods near Key West, Fla
, The discovery has created immense ex
element, proving that the plot against
Cuba Il much more formidable than a
nrst supposed.
BARON MoxcK, Liberal, one Of the lort
Justices Of ireland, and fourth land com
: | missioner. has advised the landlords o
Ireland 20 follow Archbishop Walsh's I'd
vice, and hold conferences with th'
, tenants Of Ireland with the view Of reach
| ing better relations on the question o
. rents.
III MRs. EL1zABErH MERRIAM PUTNAM die
on the 10th Il Danvers, Mass, aged on
! | hundred and two years and ten m onths-
4 on the morning Of the 20th, William
I | Thompson concealed himself near tn
I | house Of A. J. Thompson, eight mile
from Louisa. XIV, and shot three member
Of the family, one OF them fatally. tn
! murderer also shot . school-teacher. HI
q victims were his own cousins. He ha
mot been captured.
: A rRrGHrrUL accident occurred on th
4 Goth. Il J. J. Howes' shingle-mill Z
= Brainerd, Mimi, by which Jacob Petite
, min lost his life. Petternill run the bolte
and in some manner was caught In q
!. machinery and thrown across the say
o his body being cut II two just above u
e waist.
a n. ". B. HERsox, formerly State d
z tective, was arrested ct Providence, 4.
!. on the 30th, charged with stealing SIP
10 worth Of diamond . from +. n Harris
4 travelling salesman Of 1872 Broadway, Ne
York. He il accused Of taking the di'
monds while occupying . room wi
r. Harris in Boston.
"a Tur ola school-house near Dwight
- Crossing. Mass, in which Henry Wa
at Beecher preached his first sermon VIII
x attending Amherst College, was burn
GO on the 10th.
e The Topeka Base Ball Club has won :
&c Western League pennant for 1851.
THE Thistle was locked in New 70
~ lon the 2lst. There was nothing unjust
q. | about her hull.
~ DENVER. Col, entertained the New Yc
y. volunteer firemen on the 21st.
,rs MONTREAL has : squad Of 'boodl
no aldermen on trial.
~ SUITABLE winter resort for the 81
~ Crown Prince Of Germany il being sous
IL. for in Italy.
A NEW treaty with Spain was signed
ga the President on the 2lst at Washingt
'ea RUSSIA has sent IN agent TO Paris 70
On deavor to place . heavy loan amo
=. French capitalists.
ith JUDcE WILLIE, Of Texas, Is being urp
ere for the United States Supreme Court
cancy.
not The Sultan refuses TO approve Of
an proposal Of the Turkish Council tina
- Russian General BE- sent 20 Bulgaria to
-, store order.
80 G. p. HUNTINGTON was witness Def
80 the Pacific Railroad Commission on
$50 2ist.
80 RULGARrAx newspapers are being m
~. xled by the government to prev
80 blunders like the one recently made BY
Iore Btgdrsa.
49, RILBRrDE, the evicted tenant Of y
nm. Lansdowne's Irish estate, and who tou
through Canada with William OBI
has been elected to Parliament.
cen EMxA DEuRy, aged twelve. and "
erai Geisswein were burned and suffocatet
IN. death In q fire in : Brooklyn fiat, on
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